Erycina pusilla: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)Erycina pusilla (L.) N.H. Williams & M.W. Chase is the name of a plant defined in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in modern medicine, Ayurveda, and other local traditions or folk medicine. It has the following synonyms: Cymbidium pusillum (L.) Sw., Cymbidium pusillum Sw., Epidendrum pusillum L., Epidendrum pusillum J. Koenig, nom. illeg., Epidendrum pusillum Rolfe, nom. illeg., Epidendrum ventilabrum Vell., Erycina allemanii (Barb. Rodr.) N.H. Williams & M.W. Chase, Oncidium allemanii Barb.Rodr., Oncidium iridifolium Kunth, Oncidium pusillum (L.) Rchb.f., Oncidium pusillum var. megalanthum Schltr., Psygmorchis allemanii (Barb.Rodr.) Garay & Stacy, Psygmorchis pusilla (L.) Dodson & Dressler, Tolumnia pusilla (L.) Hoehne) (Psygmorchis Dodson & Dressler, Greek psygmos ‘dampness’, psygma, psygmatos ‘a fan’ plus orchis ‘orchid’, referring to the habitat or habit of these epiphytes with large flowers and loving moderate shade and humidity.) (Tolumnia Raf., origin unknown, according to Rafi nesque named for a nymph, Tolumnius was a king of the Veientes or a Rutulian soothsayer mentioned by Vergilius, see Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Flora Telluriana. 2: 101. Philadelphia 1836 [1838]..
References regarding Erycina pusilla (L.) N.H. Williams & M.W. Chase for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:
· Species Plantarum ed. 2
· Observationes Botanicae (1791)
· Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal. (1799)
· Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (1816)
· Fl. Flumin. (1831)
· Ann. Bot. Syst. (Walpers) (1863)
· Gen. Spec. Orchid. (1881)
· Gard. Chron. (1894)
· Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Beih. (1924)
· Ic. Orch. Bras. (1949)
· Phytologia (1972)
· Bradea (1974)
· Lindleyana (2001)
· Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. (2003)
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